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The Real Hustle

Love Christmas? Scammers do too. It’s a time when people are at their most vulnerable. The streets are packed, everyone is looking to buy something and pockets are filled with cash and credit cards. From the hustler’s point of view it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. This is why Christmas is also the season that local authorities, the police and consumer groups go to great lengths to make people aware of the scam artists that want to take their hard earned cash. Tonight the Real Hustle team (pictured) take us through the most devious scams perpetrated at Christmas. They play the scams out on the public, reveal how they work and how to protect yourself.

Most New Yorkers think they could never be duped into falling for a con, but this series proves we are all at risk. The hustlers – expert pickpocket and king of cons, Apollo, sleight of hand and psychology specialist, Ryan and irresistible queen of distraction, Dani – carry out some of the most notorious scams around on unsuspecting members of the public so that viewers can learn how to avoid being taken in themselves.

“Most crooks would say ‘Put your hands in the air!’ We say ‘Put your hands in your pocket…,” says Andre King when asked to explain his new series The Real Hustle NZ, screening on Monday, April 5th at 8pm on 3.

Filmed with hidden cameras, The Real Hustle NZ features teams of hustlers from the UK, the US, and New Zealand, including King, as they try out some notorious scams on members of the public.

“You may consider yourself fairly au fait with how the world works,” King explains. “However the fact of the matter is that confidence tricksters and scam artists are professionals in their field.”

“They (we) have studied everything from body language, reading facial cues and ticks, to nuero linguistic programming and misdirection until it is a finely honed craft.”

“Then that craft is employed in the most underhanded and cunning ways, with one goal in mind – to separate a mark from their money.”

King continues, saying that it’s the people who believe that they will never be taken advantage of who are the easiest targets.

“People may find themselves sitting in their lounges, sipping their tea, watching the people we’ve taken down and be thinking to themselves; ‘ahhh… they wouldn’t have caught ME with that…,” he explains.

“This is great for scam artists, in a strange dichotomy; the more firmly you believe you can’t be caught out, the easier it is to get you,” he continues. “If you accept that you can be fooled, you’re more aware that you may be being fooled.”

“But if you believe you can’t be, that thought doesn’t even enter the realms of possibility and you can therefore be caught out faster.”

King says he hopes The Real Hustle NZ will help New Zealanders overcome this ignorance, as well as expose some of the most notorious scams out there today.

“I hope that with the introduction of this show to the NZ populace, it will highlight the fact that anyone, anywhere can be caught out,” he says. “That, for me is the main reason I agreed to be part of the show.”

So if you think you’re too smart for cheap cons, think again, and make sure to tune into The Real Hustle NZ when it continues its action-packed first season on Monday, April 5th at 8pm on 3.

Hosted by none other the Outrageous Fortune’s Kirk Torrance, 3’s unmissable new series The Real Hustle NZ, premiering on Monday, March 22nd at 8pm on 3, aims to reveal how real-life scams work in practice so that viewers can avoid being ripped off by the same con.

Most people think they could never be duped into falling for a con, now The Real Hustle NZ proves we are all at risk!

Filmed with hidden cameras, The Real Hustle NZ features teams of hustlers from the UK, the US, and New Zealand, including Andre King, Kimberley Hill, and Aaron Beard, as they try out some notorious scams on members of the public.

The series offers viewers crucial advice on how to avoid being scammed – including short interviews with the New Zealand Police, providing public awareness information such as to what to look out for.

The participants featured in The Real Hustle NZ have been set up by their family, friends or workmates, and like many New Zealanders they believe they are too smart to be conned.

This however does not ring true in practice, as evident in this week’s premier episode when the hustlers shatter the participants’ ignorance by showing them just how easily they can be striped of their belongings in just three seconds.

So if you think you’re too smart for cheap cons, think again. The Real Hustle NZ will soon prove that the scams and cons happening around the country could happen to anyone!Protect yourself by tuning into The Real Hustle NZ, premiering on Monday, March 22nd at 8pm on 3.

Next up is the Real Hustle a show where crooks are heroes and everyday folk are left for dead (or fools at least)! The Real Hustle reveals all the tricks in the book and how easy it is to be sucked in.

There’s confidence trickster Alex Conran, scam artist Paul Wilson and sexy swindler Jessica-Jane Clement. Together, they carry out some of the most notorious scams. Just how much can a good hustler hustle from the unsuspecting public?

Our hustlers are good, but will they be able to fool someone into paying £500 for a worthless lottery ticket, steal a £600 necklace from under a shopkeeper’s nose, and sneak all the security details needed to empty an online bank account?

Hi, just recently I watched an episode of Dragon’s Den UK late one night but forgot what day it was, I’ve tried searching on TVNZ but can’t find anything about it.

And I watched The Real Hustle a few weeks ago on what I remember to be Prime. I saw it on two consecutive days late in the night. And have also tried searching the Prime website and can’t find anything about it either.

If anyone could tell me when these two shows are running, that would be great.

Most people probably think they could never be duped into falling for a con or a scam but this series shows how we are all at risk especially when we least expect it.

The hustlers – confidence trickster Alex Conran, scam artist Paul Wilson and sexy swindler Jessica-Jane Clement – carry out some of the most notorious scams on unsuspecting members of the public, so viewers can learn how not to be taken in themselves.

In this episode, the gang show us how to con members of the public into giving away credit card details via a fake charity scratch card just by saying there was a bit of mix up.

In an extended one-hour Winter Special, the Real Hustler’s attempt some of their biggest and most elaborate confidence tricks. Confidence trickster Alex heads the airport with scam artist Paul to show you just how easy it is to bag your holiday luggage. Alex also gets to practice his Italian as he stitches up some unlucky victims with a leather jacket scam, and sexy swindler Jess carries out the most brazen burglary and identity theft you’ve ever seen. Unravel the secrets behind the most notorious scams being carried out by con-artists around the world, and watch as the Real Hustlers reveal how you can avoid being scammed yourself.

Confidence trickster ALEX CONRAN, scam artist PAUL WILSON and sexy swindler JESSICA-JANE CLEMENT are back in all new episodes of The Real Hustle.The team of notorious hustlers attempt some of the world’s most sophisticated scams on unsuspecting members of the public, to reveal just how damaging fraud can be and show viewers how to avoid being scammed themselves.

FINAL – THE REAL HUSTLE
DOCUMENTARY
Presenters Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement look back on some of the best magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets of the series.
Tonight in the psychic scam, the trio shows how a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers. They also demonstrate the rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet, a pool hustle and outline the rules of the real hustle.THE REAL HUSTLE, Saturday 29th September at 7.00pm